2024 Films (Alphabetically)

RELEASED OR SCHEDULED FOR RELEASE

 

• Alien: Romulus (Fede Álvarez, UK/US) Cláudio's Capsule 
• All We Imagine as Light (Paual Kapadia, France/India) Cláudio's Review
• Anora (Sean Baker, US) Elisa's Review, Cláudio's Review, Gotham Nominations
• Argylle (Matthew Vaugh, UK) Abe's Review

• Babygirl (Halina Reijn, Netherlands/US) Elisa's Review, Cláudio Capsule , Gotham Nominations
• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Tim Burton, US) Elisa's Review
• The Bikeriders (Jeff Nichols, US) Chris's Review
• Bird (Andrea Arnold, UK) Elisa's Review
• The Brutalist (Brady Corbet, US/UK/Hungary) Elisa's Review, Cláudio Capsule

• Challengers (Luca Guadagnino) Cláudio's Review , Gotham Nominations
• Close Your Eyes (Victor Erice, Spain) Cláudio's Review

• La Cocina (Alonso Ruizpalacious) Elisa's Review, Abe's Review

• Conclave (Edward Berger, UK/US) Matt's Review
• Cuckoo (Tilman Singer, Germany/US) Elisa's Review

• Daaaaaalí (Quentin Dupiex, France) Cláudio's Review
• Dahomey (Mati Diop, Senegal OSCAR SUBMISSION) Cláudio's Review , EFA Nomination
• A Different Man (Aaron Schimberg, US) Elisa's Review 
• Dune Part Two (Denis Villenuve, US/Canada) Cláudio's Review

• Emilia Perez (Jacques Audiard, France) Elisa's Review, Cláudio's Review , EFA Nomination
• Evil Does Not Exist (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Japan) Ben's Review, Nick's Review, Abe's Review (2023)

• The Fall Guy (David Leich, US) Chris's Review
• Fancy Dance (Erica Tremblay, US) Cláudio's Review
• The Fire Inside (Rachel Morrison, US) Eurocheese's Review 
• The First Omen (Arksaha Stevenson) Cláudio's Capsule
• Flow (Gints Zilbalodis, Latvia OSCAR SUBMISSION) Cláudio's Review , EFA Nomination

• The Girl with the Needle (Magnus Van Horn, Denmark OSCAR SUBMISSION) Elisa's Review, Cláudio's Review , EFA Nomination

• Hard Truths (Mike Leigh, UK) Eurocheese's Review, Cláudio's Review

• I'm Still Here (Walter Salles, Brazil OSCAR SUBMISSION) Cláudio's Review 
• In A Violent Nature (Chris Nash) Cláudio's Capsule
• I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoerunbrun) Cláudio's Review, Gotham Nominations, On Bridget Lundy-Paine
• It's What's Inside (Greg Jardin, US) Abe's Review

• Joker Folie A Deux (Todd Philips, US) Cláudio's Review

• Karaoke (Moshe Rosenthal, Israel) Abe's Review (2022) 
• Kneecap (, Ireland OSCAR SUBMISSION) BIFA Nominations

• Last Summer (Catherine Breillat, France) Cláudio's Review 
• Longlegs (Osgood Perkins) Cláudio's Capsule
• Love Lies Bleeding (Rose Glass, US) Elisa's Review, BIFA Nominations

• Maria (Pablo Larrain, Chile/Germany/Italy) Elisa's Review
• Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola, US) Elisa's Review
• Monkey Man (Dev Patel, US/India) Cláudio's Review

• Nickel Boys (Ramell Ross, US) , Gotham Nominations
• No Other Land (various, Palestine) Cláudio's Review , EFA Nomination
• Nowhere Special (Uberto Pasolini, UK/Italy) Cláudio's Review

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• Oddity (Damian McCarthy) Cláudio's Capsule
• Oh Canada(Paul Schrader, US/Israel) Elisa's Review, Cláudio's Review
• On Becoming a Guinea Fowl(Rungano Nyoni) Cláudio's Review , BIFA Nominations
• The Outrun (), BIFA Nominations

• The People's Joker (Vera Drew, US) Nick's Review
• Power (Yance Ford, US) Abe's Review

• Queer(Luca Guadagnino, US/Italy) Elisa's Review, Cláudio Capsule 
• A Quiet Place: Day One (Michael Sarnoski, US) Cláudio's Capsule

• The Room Next Door (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain) Elisa's Review, Cláudio's Review , EFA Nomination
• Rumours (Guy Maddin, Canada/US) Elisa's Review, Cláudio's Review 

• Santosh (, UK) , BIFA Nominations
• Sasquash Sunset (Nathan and David Zellner, US) Elisa's Review
• The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Mohammad Rasoulof, Germany OSCAR SUBMISSION) Cláudio's Review , EFA Nomination
• Small Things Like These (Tim Mielant, Ireland) Elisa's Review
• Soundtrack to a Coup D'Etat (Johan Grimonprez) Cláudio's Review, EFA Nomination
• Stress Positions (Theda Hammel, US) Abe's Review 
• The Substance (Coralie Fargeat) Cláudio's Review , EFA Nomination

• Trap (M Night Shyamalan, US) Cláudio's Review

• Vermiglio (Maura Delpero, Italy OSCAR SUBMISSION) Elisa's Interview, Cláudio's Review , EFA Nomination

• Wild Robot (Chris Sanders, US) Cláudio's Review

• Youth (Hard Times) (Wang Bing, France/Netherlands/Luxembourg) Cláudio's Review
• Youth (Homecoming) (Wang Bing, France/Netherlands/Luxembourg) Cláudio's Review

AWAITING DISTRIBUTION

CLOUD

• 7 Keys (Joy Wilkinson, UK) Abe's Review
• Addition (Marcelle Lunam, Australia) Abe's Review
• Afternoons of Solitude (Albert Serra) Cláudio's Review
• All the Long Nights (Shô Miyake, Japan) Elisa's Review
• Another End (Piero Messina, Italy/France/UK) Elisa's Review
• April (Dea Kulumbegashvili, Georgia) Cláudio's Review
• Audrey (Natalie Bailey, Australia) Abe's Review
• The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire (Madeline Hunt-Ehrlich) Cláudio's Review
• Beacon (Roxy Shih) Abe's Review
• Beloved Tropic (Ana Endara Mislov) Cláudio's Capsule
• Bliss (Shemi Zarhin, Israel) Abe's Review
• bluish (Milena Czernovsky & Lilith Kraxner) Nick's Review
• Boong (Lakshmipriya Devi, India) Cláudio's Capsule
• Carnival is Over (Fernando Coimbra) Cláudio's Review
• Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhangke) Elisa's Review, Cláudio's Review
• Christmas Eve at Miller's Point (Tyler Taormina) Elisa's Review
• Cloud (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan OSCAR SUBMISSION) Cláudio's Review
• Collective Monologue (Jessica Sarah Rinland) Cláudio's Review
• The Courageous (Jasmin Gordon) Cláudio's Capsule

• The Damned (Roberto Minervini) Elisa's Review
• Darkest Miriam (Naomi Jaye) Abe's Review
• Desert Road (Shannon Triplett) Abe's Review
• Don't Let Go to the Dogs Tonight (Embeth Davidtz, South Africa) Abe's Review
• L'Empire (Bruno Dumont, France) Elisa's Review
• The Exiles (Belén Funes) Cláudio's Capsule
• Family Therapy (Sonja Prosenc, Slovenia OSCAR SUBMISSION) Abe's Review
• Fire of Wind (Marta Mateus, Portugal) Cláudio's Review
• The French Italian (Rachel Wolther) Abe's Review
• The Freshly Cut Grass (Celina Murga) Abe's Review
• From Ground Zero (various, Palestine OSCAR SUBMISSION) Cláudio's Review
• From Hilde With Love (Andreas Dresen) Elisa's Review
• Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes, Portugal OSCAR SUBMISSION) Cláudio's Review 
• Gülizar (Belkis Bayrak, Turkey/Kosovo) Cláudio's Capsule
• Happy Holidays (Scandar Copti, Palestine / Israel/ Germany) Abe's Review
• Harvest (Athina Rachel Tsangari, Greece) Cláudio's Review
• Horizonte (César Augusto Acevedo) Cláudio's Review
• Hunting Daze (Annick Blanc) Abe's Review

• Ka Whawhai Tonu - Struggle Without End (Michael Johathan, New Zealand) Abe's Review
• Kill the Jockey (Luis Ortega, Argentina OSCAR SUBMISSION), Abe's Review, Cláudio Capsule
• The Knife (Nnamdi Asomugha, US) Abe's Review
• Lázaro at Night (Nicolás Pereda) Elisa's Review, Cláudio's Review
• The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos (The Agbajowo Collective) Cláudio's Review
• Liminov: The Ballad (Kirill Serebrennikov) Elisa's Review
• Malta (Natalia Santa) Abe's Review
• McVeigh (Mike Ott, US) Abe's Review
• A Mistake (Christine Jeffs) Abe's Review
• Mistress Dispeller (Elizabeth Lo) Cláudio's Review
• The Mountain (Rachel House, New Zealand) Abe's Review
• My Favourite Cake (Behtash Saneeha & Maryam Moghadda, Iran) Elisa's Review
• Nonostante (Feeling Better) (Valerio Mastandrea, Italy) Elisa's Review
• On Falling (Laura Carreira) Cláudio's Review
• One to One: John & Yoko (Kevin Macdonald & Sam Rice-Edwards) Elisa's Review

• The  Party's Over (Elena Manrique, Spain) Cláudio's Capsule
• Pepe (Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias, Dominican Republic) Elisa's Review, Cláudio's Review
• Perfumed with Mint (Muhammad Hamdy) Cláudio's Review
• Plastic People (Ben Addelman & Ziya Tong) Abe's Review
• Pooja Sir (Deepak Rauniyar, India) Elisa's Review
• Queen of My Dreams (Fawzia Mirza, Pakistan/Canada) Abe's Review
• Quisling - The Final Days (Erik Poppe, Norway) Abe's Review
• Restless (Jed Hart) Abe's Review
• Roleplay (Kate Lyn Matthew) Abe's Review

• The Second Act (Quentin Dupieux, France) Elisa's Review
• Shepherds (Sophie Deraspe, Canada/France) Cláudio's Capsule
• The Shrouds (David Croneberg, Canada) Cláudio's Review
• Suburban Fury (Robinson Devor, US) Cláudio's Review
• Suspended Time (Olivier Assayas, France) Elisa's Capsule
• Three Kilometres to The End of the World (Emanuel Pârvu, Romania OSCAR SUBMISSION) Elisa's Review
• Triumph (Kristina Grozeva & Petar Valchanov, Bulgaria OSCAR SUBMISSION) Cláudio's Review
• Union (Brett Story & Stephen Maing) Nick's Review

• Viêt and Nam (Truong Minh Qúy, Vietnam) Cláudio's Review
• The Village Next to Paradise (Mo Harawe) Cláudio's Capsule 
• We Strangers (Anu Valia, US) Abe's Review
• We Were Dangerous (Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu, New Zealand) Abe's Review
• Wild Diamond (Agathe Riedinger, France) Elisa's Review
• William Tell (Nick Hamm, UK/Switzerland) Abe's Review
• Wolves Always Comes At Night (Gabrielle Brady, Mongolia/Australia) Cláudio's Review 

NATHANIEL'S 2024 RANKING, GENERALIZED
(alphabetized by categories)

 

Loved. Think of Them Often
Anora, Armand, The Brutalist, Challengers, The Fall Guy, Flow, Housekeeping for Beginners, Problemista, The Room Next Door, Saturday Night, Vermiglio, and Wicked.

Good Stuff. See Them!
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Brats, Conclave, Didi, Dune Part Two, Femme, Fly Me To the Moon, The Last Showgirl, Nightbitch, Outstanding A Comedy Revolution, Queer, A Real Pain, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Thelma, The Thicket, and The Wild Robot

Recommended albeit with Major or Minor Quibbles:
Alien Romulus, The Bikeriders, Big Boys, Blitz, The Critic, Damsel, Emilia Perez, Fancy Dance, Gladiator II, Hit Man, How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies, The Idea of You, Inside Out 2, I Saw the TV Glow, Janet Planet, Late Night with the Devil, Love Lies Bleeding, Merchant Ivory, Nosferatu, Orion and the Dark, The Outrun,  Outstanding A Comedy Revolution, Road House, Santosh, Sebastian, Sing Sing, The Substance,  Unstoppable, Wicked Little Letters,  and Woman of the Hour

Whatever Their Qualities -- They'll Have Their Fans -- But I Was Never Fully On Board
The Beast Within, Between the Temples, Code 8 Part II, Deadpool & Wolverine, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Indigo Girls: It's Only Life After All, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Mean Girls, Monkey Man, Piece by Piece, A Quiet Place: Day One, and Unstoppable

Make It Stop!
Atlas, A Family Affair, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, IF, and Madame Web 

2023 Films (Alphabetically)

Title (Director, Country) Review, Grade*, Release Date 
*Grades represented Nathaniel's take, they do not always correlate with the reviews themselves

LAST UPDATED 07/01/23

RELEASED OR SOON TO BE...

ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMMANIA

• 65 (Scott Beck, Bryan Woods, US) Mar 10th
• 80 For Brady (Kyle Marvin, US) Matt's Review B- Feb 3rd

• Air (Ben Affleck, US) Eurocheese's Review April 5th
• Alcarràs (Carla Simon, Spain) Jason's Review, Nathaniel's Take B+ Jan 6th
• Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (Peyton Reed, US) Nathaniel's Take C- Feb 17th
• Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (Kelly Fremon Craig, US) Ben's Review Apr 28th

• Baby Ruby (Bess Wohl, US) Abe's Review, Feb 3rd
• Blue Caftan, The (Maryam Touzani, Morocco) Cláudio's Review B+ Feb 10th
• Boston Strangler (Matt Ruskin, US) Matt's Review B- March 17th
• Broadway (Christos Massalas, Greece) Juan Carlos Review Apr 28th

• Cairo Conspiracy (Tarik Saleh, Sweden) Elisa's Review Samuel Goldwyn, Jan 27th
• Carmen (Millipied, US) Abe's Review SPC, April 21st
• Cassandro (Roger Ross Williams, US) Amazon
• Chevalier (Stephen Williams, US) Baby's Take, Composer Interview Searchlight Pictures, Apr 21st

• Desperate Souls, Dark City, and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy (Nancy Buirski, US) Glenn's Review
• Drop, The (Sarah Adina Smith, US) Abe's Review Jan 13th
• Dungeons & Dragons (John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein, US) B Mar 19th

• Eight Mountains. The (Van Groeningen & Vandermeersch, Belgium) Elisa's Review Apr 28th
• El Houb (Shariff Nsar, Netherlands) B- Apr 4th

• Fanny: The Right to Rock (Bobbi Jo Hart) Glenn's Review
• Freaks Out (Gabriele Mainetti, Italy) Elisa's Review Aprl 28th

• Guardians of the Galaxy (James Gunn, US) C+ May 5th

• L'Immensita (Emanuele Crialese, Italy) Elisa's Take, Abe's Review May 5th
• Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (James Mangold, US) Elisa's Review June 30

• Joyland (Saim Sadiq, Pakistan) Claudio's Review, Nathaniel's Take  A Apr 7th

• Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese, US) Elisa's Review Oct 6

• Little Mermaid, The (Rob Marshall, US) May
• Little Richard: I Am Everything (Lisa Cortes, US) Glenn's Review Apr 21st
• Living With Chucky (Kyra Elise Gardner, US) Glenn's Review April 4th
• Love to Love You: Donna Summer (Roger Ross Williams, US) Glenn's Review 

MAGIC MIKE'S LAST DANCE

• Magic Mike's Last Dance (Steven Soderbergh, US) Nathaniel's Review B- Feb 10th
• Mars One (Gabriel Martins, Brazil) Cláudio's Review, Director Interview, Jan 5th
• Master Gardener (Paul Schrader) Elisa's Take C- May 19th
• Monica (Andrea Pallaoro, Italy) Elisa's Take May 12th
• Moving On (Paul Weitz, US) Baby Clyde's Take Mar 17th
• Museum of the Revolution (Srdan Keca, Serbia) Glenn's Review 

• Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV (Amanda Kim, US) Glenn's Review Mar 24th

• Of An Age (Goran Stolevski, Australia)
• Other People's Children (Rebecca Zlotowski) Elisa's Take, Cláudio's Review Apr 21st

• Pacification (Albert Serra, Spain/France) Elisa's Review Feb 17th
• Palm Trees and Power Lines (Jamie Dack, US) Abe's Review Mar 3rd
• Passages (Ira Sachs, US) Abe's Review B MUBI
• Plan 75 (Chie Hayakawa, Japan) Cláudio's Review Apr 21st
• Punch (Welby Ings, New Zealand) B Mar 10th

• Renfield (Chris McKay, US) Nic Cage Top 10 B+ Apr 14
• Revoir Paris (Alice Winocur, France) Cláudio's Review June 30
• RMN (Cristian Mungiu, Romania) Elisa's Review Apr 28th

• Sanctuary (Zachary Wigon) Abe's Review May 19th
• Scarlet (Pietro Marcello, France/Italy) Elisa's Review June 9th
• Seriously Red (Gracie Otto, Australia) Abe's Review Feb 10th
• Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt, US) Jason's Review Apr 7th
• Smoking Causes Coughing (Quentin Dupieux, France) Elisa's Review Mar 31st
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (US) Ben's Review A- June 2
• Somewhere in Queens (Ray Romano, US) Abe's Review Apr 21st
• Starling Girl, The (Laurel Parmet, US) Jason's Review May 12th
• Still: A Michael J Fox Movie (Davis Guggenheim, US) Glenn's Review
• Stroll, The (Kristen Lovell and Zackary Drucker) Glenn's Review HBO Films
• Super Mario Bros. (Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic, US) Chris's Review April 5th
• Swallowed (Carter Smith, US) B Feb 14th

• The Taking (Alexandre O. Philippe) Glenn's Review
• A Thousand and One (AV Rockwell, US) Jason's Review Mar 31st
• To Catch a Killer (Damian Szifron) B+ Apr 21
• Tori and Lokita (Dardenne Bros, Belgium) Elisa's Review Mar 24

• Victim/Suspect (Nancy Schwartzman, US) Glenn's Review

• What's Love Got To Do With It (Kapur, UK) Abe's Review May 5th
• When You Finish Saving the World (Jesse Eisenberg, US) Elisa's Review B- Jan 23rd
• Will-o-the-Wisp (Portugal) Cláudio's Review, Jason's Review B+ May 26th

DISTRIBUTION BUT NO RELEASE DATE YET

PASSAGES

• About Dry Grasses (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey) Elisa's Review Janus/Sideshow
• All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (Raven Jackson, US) Abe's Review A24
• Am I OK? (Notaro & Allyne, US) Matt's Review Warner Bros/HBO
• Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet, France) Elisa's Review Neon
• birth/rebirth (Laura Moss, US) Jason's Review Shudder
• Jeanne du Barry (Maiwenn, France) Elisa's Review Vertical
• Karaoke (Moshe Rosenthal, Israel) Abe's Review Greenwich
• A Little Prayer (Angus MacLachlan, US) Abe's Review SPC
• Magazine Dreams (Elijah Bynum, US) Searchlight
• May December (Todd Haynes, US) Elisa's Review Netflix
• The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer) Elisa's Review A24

NO US DISTRIBUTION YET

• Accidental Getaway Driver (Sing J Lee, US) Jason's Review Screened at Sundance
• Bad Behaviour (Alice Englert, New Zealand) C+ Screened at Sundance
• Bloody Hell (Molly McGlynn, Canada) Abe's Review Screened at SXSW
• A Brighter Tomorrow (Nanni Moretti, Italy) Elisa's Review Screened at Cannes
• Eileen (William Oldroyd, US) Jason's Review B- Screened at Sundance
• Fancy Dance (Erica Tremblay, US) B- Screened at Sundance
• Food and Country (Laura Gabbert, US) Abe's Review Screened at SXSW
• Fremont (Babak Jalali, US) Abe's Review Screened at Sundance
• Heroic (David Zonana, Mexico) B Screened at Sundance
• It's Only Life After All (Alexandria Bombach, US) C- Screened at Sundance
• John Farnham: Finding the Voice (Poppy Stockwell, Australia) Glenn's Review
• No Ordinary Campaign (Christopher Burke, US) Abe's Review Screened at SXSW
• Pay or Die (Rachael Dyer, Scott Alexander Ruderman, US) Abe's Review Screened at SXSW
• The Pod Generation (Sophie Barthes, UK) Abe's Review Screened at Sundance
• Radical (Christopher Zalla, Mexico) B Screened at Sundance
• Shayda (Noora Niasari, Australia) B+ Screened at Sundance
• Talk to Me (Philippou Brothers, Austraia) Jason's Review Screened at Sundance
• The Young Wife (US) Abe's Review Screened at SXSW